Cops: Authorities investigate Brick fire on F Street

BRICK – Authorities are investigating a structure fire reported in an abandoned two-story building at 3:21 a.m. at 101 F Street, said Police Lt. Tim Boyle.

A neighbor reported the fire to authorities, said Kevin Batzel, chief of the Brick Township Bureau of Fire Safety.

The cause of the fire in the building that sits at the corner of F Street and Hooper Avenue remains under investigation by Bureau Inspector Rob Kurilla, the Brick Police Detective Bureau, and the Ocean County Sheriff’s Criminalistics Investigate Unit. The Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office is assisting in the investigation, Batzel said.

“Our protocol is to contact police and the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office on a fire of this nature — an abandoned structure with a cause that needs further investigation,” Batzel said.

The fire was quickly extinguished and there were no reported injuries.